WEBSITE NEWS ARCHIVE

The World Cup is upon us
The planet is in the grip of World Cup fever and About a Ball is no exception. We'll have regular updates from Germany and we've even got an England song to get you in the mood. May the best team win. - Ed.

New columnist joins About a Ball team
Visit the Comment section for regular articles from our new feature writer Paul Martins. His wealth of football knowledge and experience make him a great new signing for the site. - Ed.

African Nations Cup Kicks Off
Visit our African Cup of Nations 2006 section to keep up to date with the latest action from Egypt. Also, check the comment section for our annual honours list. - Ed.

Beat the Christmas Rush
Christmas is coming and the shops are getting busy so where better to find your presents than our football book and DVD shops? There's a huge selection available. - Ed.

New Aboutaball football prediction league
Aboutaball has a new Prediction League, join up and see if you can out predict us! Click here to join. First fixtures are this weekend - Ren

Football DVD's
Why not check out our great list of Football DVD's available at Amazon. Click on the link to the left. - Ren

Wigan seek Windass firepower
Wigan have identified 36 year old Dean Windass as the man to fire them to safety in the Premier League. However Bradford has resisted cashing in on the experienced striker prefering to offer him a new deal. Watch this space, Deano could be terrorising Premier League defences in the new future. - Ren

New Season 2005/06
Like clubs around Europe, About a Ball is preparing for the start of the new football season. In the coming weeks we will be overhauling and updating all the country pages and adding some exciting new features. - Ed.

Exciting times ahead
As we move into the business end of the season when the European and domestic action really starts to hot up, keep an eye out for the latest articles and features on About a Ball. - Ed.

Happy New Year
The staff at About a Ball would like to wish all our readers a successful 2005. See the comment page for our 2004 honours list. - Ed

Site Renovation Underway
After a period of technical problems, About a Ball is on the road to recovery and should be back to business as normal in the next few days. Look out for updates and improvements. - Ed

About A Ball in Portugal
The About a Ball team are on the road to Euro 2004 - quite literally. Yes, we will be in Portugal this summer and our mobile press centre will be there too - with space-age technology to beam back up-to-the-minute information. - Ed

2003 Award Winners Announced
The winners of the 2003 About a Ball Awards have been announced. Read all about it in 'comment' and argue about them in the forum. - Ed

Happy New Year
2004 is set to be an exciting year for football - and for 'About a Ball'. Our Euro 2004 guide already provides stacks of helpful information for supporters, and will continue to grow in the New Year. Here's to a successful 2004 for your team, and for 'About a Ball' - may we go from strength to strength! - Ed

Happy Christmas from About a Ball
... and a happy new year. The forums are now working so you can debate the latest football news with fans around the world. There is also an article on England's rugby World Cup win in 'A load of Ball'. - Paul

NEW ARTICLES:
Check out the profile of Maris Verpakovskis, and the new-look football book, DVD and game shops. The all-time rankings for England and France have also been updated. - Ed.

NEW LOOK SITE UNVEILED
The new style About a Ball website has finally gone live. Work is on-going and certain features such as the forum and poll will be re-launched in the next few days.

Enjoy using the new site. As always, we welcome any feedback and suggections. - Paul

COMING SOON TO ABOUT A BALL...
About a Ball will be given an exciting new look in the near future with a complete overhaul of the current design. Our experts have been working hard on the new layout and we hope to bring you an improved site in the next few weeks. - Paul

ABOUT A BALL BOUNCES BACK
After a series of technical problems including the bombing of our Baghdad headquarters, About a Ball is once again up and running. Look out for some exciting new features in the run-up to Euro 2004. - Paul

Back Home
Hello everybody - I'm back at the office. If I can remember how to do everything, I'll be working hard on About a Ball over the next few weeks to try and restore it to it's former glory. Soon it will be better than ever. - Paul

Site Re-vamp under way
Paul has returned from France and should have the site back up and flying soon - James

Aboutaball webmasters team site
Check out unfitt fc the official team site - james

Aboutaball is BACK!
Following a Serious hacking incident which destroyed the site aboutaball is now back and will soon be better than ever! - james